Mr Freeman, part 60

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Oh, how I missed you so, my dear know-it-alls, my clever boys and girls, my kitties and bunnies! From your teary eyes I can see that you haven’t forgotten your old pal Freeman and that you’re ready to get back to solving riddles and searching for messages! But we don’t have much time, so let’s concentrate on what’s most important… The world has finally gone totally bonkers, and so today my travelling circus presents a brand new show. Come on, let’s go! GRANDPAS COOK UP SOME BRAND NEW DOUGH!

There were grandpas and there were turnips, but no dough. People would just exchange what they had for what they needed – like a turnip for a wagon, and the wagon for a jug of wine. A simple and easy to understand system. And if there wasn’t enough of something, like nails or arrowheads, do to the fact that almost no one knew how to work with metal, then obviously those things were worth more. Later, people started exchanging all sorts of rare metals, and if someone got rich they would carry around half a ton of gold with them like idiots. It was inconvenient and you could get robbed. So they decided to turn in all of their heavy objects for safekeeping. That’s how banks came about. They chopped up everything they got into equal chunks and introduced the gold standard. And the warrants from the banks that promised the bearer metal in exchange, turned into paper money.

It was all simple and clear, there was no way for a bourgeois to line his pockets! And then quite recently, with the help of clever words and wise-assed verbal gymnastics, the dough-makers abolished the gold standard. Everybody just got screwed! “Rejoice, little man! Before, you used to exchange money for gold, and now you’re going to exchange it for… purchasing power!” In other words, currency is just paper, ink, and an order from above to regard this typographic composition as happiness and the highest good! And those who oppose this order are fences, instigators, terrorists, and sodomites!

Let me open your eyes, my dears! Think! There won’t be a grain of jest in my call to action! The government provides amenities for our streets and that is good! But it doesn’t mean that you’re personally not allowed to paint a fence or plant a tree. Good deeds shall multiply! And the government prints money, and that’s good too since any currency is the lifeblood of the economy. And the faster it flows, the more lively the economy will become. Good deeds shall multiply! Whether it’s electronic money, gift certificates, or bubble gum trading cards. Attention! Everyone has a right to issue his own money. That’s the big bourgeois secret!

Some secret! Suppose John the smith paints a hundred extraordinary pictures. He sells them all to his neighbour for fifty bucks and suddenly dies soon after. Most probably from drinking. The neighbour takes them to the city and doubles his dough by selling the pictures to some shady art dealer he knows. The dealer hangs the paintings in his trendy gallery and starts selling them one at a time for crazy money. People ask, “Hey, dude, why are they so expensive?” And he answers, “Well, John is dead so there won’t be any more pictures. There’s limited supply.”

The same crap is going on with bitcoin. In this case math doesn’t allow an endless number of them to be produced. You can’t just go and issue a hundred thousand million of them when you feel like it. Because Johnny died. And they cost exactly as much as people are willing to pay for them, just like with some antique dish, or Stalin’s underwear. So anything that there’s not much of and is difficult or even impossible to duplicate can work as dough. And that means that almost everything around us is made out of money. It’s crazy, isn’t it?

There is also the good money of Johann Silvio Gesell. It works quite effectively until people start getting shot for it…

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[MrFreemanEnglish]

Mr. Freeman is on X!
Uncover new perspectives👇

[bartekpawlak]

this will be apart of history, the world can only go so long without people really noticing what's happening, its all a game, life is a game

[Reqify]

It's scary that this isn't fiction, a story, some distopian wonderland.

It's real.

[WinterFox]

Messages aside, can we appreciate how well animated this series is? I'm loving this style

[thebonecrusher]

Binge watching mr Freeman is the biggest mistake I've made so far this year because his words are new and unheard of to the human mind

[sashimi]

Well this ages like fine wine didn’t it?

[phoneyogurt]

god i’ve been watching this in russian for so long. i’m so glad there’s a dub now.

[antijordan]

After studying levation because I want to fly. And getting bored of studying/researching I found this channel though YouTube shorts, where has this been all my life. Most of the things freeman says are things I’ve vaguely known but not truly accepted because of the society we live in. for example I was departing with a friend the importance of struggling when your young so that you don’t have to struggle when you’re older, my friend said he’d rather live his life now, in case he dies young rather than struggling/ grinding for a better future. with a mentality like that I suppose his way of thinking would be correct but expect to live a long life, you don’t know if you’ll live or if you’ll die. We live a 50/50 every day. Our decisions define if we live or not. Anyways glad I found this channel, alr back to working on my dream.

[Fonfon]

Reference to be studied: “Johann Silvio Gesell was a German-Argentine economist, merchant, and founder of Freiwirtschaft. His economic prescriptions fit within the anti-capitalist free market framework of Liberal socialism”. What a discovery:) thanx

[Beans]

Invader zim meets existential crisis British man. Me like, me like. It’s disturbing, but for some reason I can’t stop listening LMAOO

[DrDribs]

People stored their precious metals in the king's treasury until the king wanted to fund more wars and wrote a bunch of worthless IOUs. Blacksmiths then became the first banks.

[lilyblu]

Thank you for mentioning Silvio Gesell. I'm gonna find his book, def sounds like an interesting read.

[folkpine]

Ok I'm finally asking: What is it that makes this feel so familiar? Everything about this series feels like something I've known before, but I can't remember what it is. Am I crazy? Am I missing any reference?

[Deejayjax]

Freeman’s voice definitely sounds more high pitched than before

[youssefahmed]

0:57 "Novus Ordo Seclorum" is a Latin phrase that appears on the reverse side of the Great Seal of the United States. It is often translated to mean "New Order of the Ages" or "New World Order". The phrase was first suggested by Charles Thomson, the Latin expert who was involved in the design of the Great Seal, and it was intended to signify the beginning of a new era in American history. It is often associated with the idea of a new era of freedom, democracy, and progress, but it has also been associated with conspiracy theories and the notion of a secretive global elite controlling world events.

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I WAS ON EPISODE 6 BUT I ACCIDENTLY GOT TOO THIS EPISODE AND WAS NOT EXPECTING THE BEGGINING

[thealmightyspade]

Just found this channel through Instagram and im completely at a loss of words! This guy is really onto somethin

[mysticshlol]

Please come back we need you now more than we ever did

[qnrsbou]

3:59 - plate with "всё, больше не могу", 4:02 - "слава ..."

[lucawits]

The USA doesn't even print their own money. The Federal reserve does, the federal reserve is owned in equal parts by the major banks of the United States, which are all privatly owned. Put your money into gold and silver, human greed will always dictate that they have value.